Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow: Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact

by Lochlainn Seabrook

Book Overview

Yankee historians delight in calling Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest "the Butcher of Fort Pillow," claiming that he instigated a "racist massacre" of surrendering black Union troops during the battle at Henning, Tennessee, on April 12, 1864. But is this true? Absolutely not It is merely the North's fabricated version, one based not on reality, but on opinion, nescience, emotion, sciolism, presentism, spite, and an anti-South bias that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194373710X
• ISBN13: 9781943737109
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Sea Raven Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"